different minimum standards of living in different areas

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different minimum standards of living in different areas

SDG — 4/19/2005 2:31:26 PM (archived)

I like this idea, but I do see one major hurtle. It costs a lot more to live in a a big city than it does in less urban communities. $15,000 (or whaterever the baseline is) may not be enough to live on in Seattle, but a fine base income in Wapato. I could see a huge temptation to quit one's minimum wage job in Seattle and go rural and live off the dole. How could you counter the mass migration of unskilled labor out of the cities?

Something to chew on.

-Steve G.

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US Tax Code - phil - 4/13/2005 4:48:03 PM
- Consumption tax drawback - RobVG - 4/16/2005 4:14:44 PM
  - Maybe for a change governments could cut back on non-essential programs... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2005 4:11:45 AM
    - The real "welfare Cadillac" is in the corporate garage." (n/t) - Bowser - 4/19/2005 8:00:47 AM
    - Define "non-essential". - Mary Anne - 4/17/2005 7:02:55 PM
      - re: Define "non-essential". - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2005 1:15:24 AM
      - re: Define "non-essential". - gbaikie - 4/18/2005 1:14:54 AM
- The wealthy in this country, have most of the money. - alcaray - 4/13/2005 8:56:53 PM
  - No S*** Sherlock - p - 4/16/2005 11:24:47 PM
- With a consumption tax.... - Tony - 4/13/2005 7:02:56 PM
  - You mean... We'd have to actually.... ENFORCE border security? - DL - 4/13/2005 7:58:14 PM
    - re: You mean... We'd have to actually.... ENFORCE border security? - phil - 4/13/2005 8:19:02 PM
      - That might work, but here comes the paperwork again. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2005 5:52:22 AM
        
        An at-the-register value added tax would be virtually paper-work free - DL - 4/14/2005 2:46:34 PM
        
        re: value added tax - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2005 7:12:15 AM
        
        Poverty ID - DL - 4/18/2005 12:10:50 AM
        
        Solution: Tax everything and pay the poor - Nick Hoffman - 4/17/2005 11:22:30 AM
        
        fascinating .. - Daniel - 4/19/2005 5:16:16 AM
        
        I haven't really worked it out but I think you might have a Perpetual Motion Machine on your hands. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2005 1:18:07 AM
        
        No, a 26% consumption tax raises sufficient revenue (n/t) - p - 4/18/2005 9:06:11 PM
        
        Sounds like the productive citizens end up taking it in the shorts again. - Tom Brosz - 4/20/2005 4:53:36 AM
        
        Not productive - Consumptive - Nick Hoffman - 4/20/2005 12:54:07 PM
        
        re: The problem with all these "consumption tax" and "point of sale tax" scheems is that they fail to tax barter transactions. - Scott Evil - 4/21/2005 11:14:29 PM
        
        re: The problem with all these "consumption tax" and "point of sale tax" scheems is that they fail to tax barter transactions. - p - 4/22/2005 3:17:01 AM
        
        re: Not productive - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2005 7:21:23 AM
        
        Bingo! (n/t) - phil - 4/21/2005 1:47:48 AM
        
        No perpetual motion. - Nick Hoffman - 4/18/2005 9:52:13 AM
        
        different minimum standards of living in different areas - SDG - 4/19/2005 2:31:26 PM
        
        In effect that's what Fair Tax proposes - phil - 4/17/2005 4:27:44 PM

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